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Show j OJdj and Endie An authority .on cooking asserts that England Is a sou pi ess country, meaning that English cooks can not make soup and that soup does not appear on th menu of an English everyday dinner: Which b) a fact, though soup is about the first form that English charity takes. Ether and Chloroform, so useful In sending send-ing men to sleep, have the very opposite effect on plants, which are stimulated to the greatest possible activity by these drugs. In Denmark and Germany advan-tage advan-tage has been taken of this fact to force Bowers in rooms and glasshouses, and to make them bloom but of season. The results re-sults are said to be marvelous. , While looking for stragglers. Just as a Welsh regiment was about to sail -from Capetown for England, an ofneer found a private standing at attention In. a shed. "What are yen doing here?" he was asked. "Please, sir," was the reply. "I am a lunatic and I em waiting for the corporal's guard." He was right; he was a lunatic and his guard had forgotten him. A species of sheep common in Syria Is so incumbered by the weight of Its tall that the shepherds fix a piece of thin board to the under part, where it is not covered with thick wool, to prevent It from being torn by the bushes, etc Some have small wheels afnzed to facilitate the dragging of these boards after them. The tall of common sheep of this sort usually usu-ally weighs fifteen pounds or upward, while that of a large species, after being well fattened, will weigh fifty pounds. e A collapsible theater hat which may be folded Into a minute space, and when necessary nec-essary will resume Its former symmetry, has been Invented by a London milliner for the benefit of her sex. The hat. whldh has been patented. Is made on an In. genloua framework, which can be covered with pliable straw, chiffon, lace or ckKh Indeed, any material save velvet, which would crush too much to be of service. It can also be modeled In any shape, to suit any style of beauty. The vlolenoe of tropical rainstorms Is proverbial: yet never before has-ene" been scientifically registered In which so much water fell in so short a time as at Santiago San-tiago de Cuba recently. An Engtlsh engineer, en-gineer, who gauged the rainfall, found, that it was at the rate of over four Inches an hour, and that between 1 and 10 o'clock In the evening more than a foot of water reached the ground. The storm covered nearly 300 square miles, and in places was heavier than at Santiago. |